Politics 2024/25 General Election Voting Intention (2022)

[Deebs]

They are winning lots of councils...the problem with that is that they are getting found out at council level.

Fuck all is changing, the roads are some of the worst in the country, and they put the tax up well over inflation, not to mention the garden waste bin is now £69 (nice) a year (was £45)

Made a local gammon rage when I pointed out that he voted for them, and they did indeed promise to lower taxes.

Have to add my penneth to the state of the fucking roads, round here it is like driving through the streets of Tehran, more holes than flat surface.

 

[Gwadien]

I stand by that.

"Free" - but only if you're following an "allowed" narrative. Our society is defined by leftist intolerance.

Edit: Hence the existence of multiple articles like this.

The misappropriation of terminology is hilarious.

First it was neo-liberal now it's neo-marxist.

Sound loads like that bloke in America you definitely don't like.

 

[Scouse]

The misappropriation of terminology is hilarious.

Yes. It's definitely just a made up thing rather than an appropriate term used to discuss sociological makeups of societies (amongst other things).

Neo-Marxism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Can I ask why, since you've become a teacher (and in a rather extraordinary volte-face), have you become anti-intellectual?

You were happily buried in those sorts of questions, these sorts of arguments, as a younger man.

 

[Gwadien]

I just think it's funny you actually believe that Keir Starmer is a Neo-Marxist.

I don't engage in debate in it because it's fucking stupid.

 

[Scouse]

Just to let you know Neo-Marxist thinking is absolutely alive and well in our political establishment. For example - Ralph Miliband is a quite famous neo-Marxist. And considering his son is being talked about, openly (in the guardian for example) as the current "real PM" then perhaps we should be taking this discussion seriously, rather than glibly dismissing it.

 

[Scouse]

I just think it's funny you actually believe that Keir Starmer is a Neo-Marxist

Not Keir. Definitely not Keir.

(He was Trotskyist as a kid, btw.)

I don't engage in debate in it because it's fucking stupid.

Or you're one, and don't like to draw attention to it? Like neo marxism is quietly doing, has been quietly doing since the 1960's? Part of it's method of operating being along the lines of "the smartest thing the devil did was convincing people he doesn't exist".

The thing about neo marxism is that it's easily defeated when people understand what it means in their day-to-day actual lives. They push back, hard.

So it's political proponents do everything they can to disguise it, to deny it, to cherry pick motives that are easy to swallow.

I consider neo marxism to be an enemy of liberty.


Edit: Anyway, thanks for signposting your anti-intellectualism. First you deny it's a thing (and call me Trumpist for good measure), then you admit it exists but say debate is "stupid".

Nailed on.

 

[Embattle]

They are winning lots of councils...the problem with that is that they are getting found out at council level.

Fuck all is changing, the roads are some of the worst in the country, and they put the tax up well over inflation, not to mention the garden waste bin is now £69 (nice) a year (was £45)

Made a local gammon rage when I pointed out that he voted for them, and they did indeed promise to lower taxes.

Sort of like:

Reform-led Kent County Council approves councillor wage rise

It is "bad optics" to "award ourselves a nice little pay rise", a Green Party councillor says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Scouse]

‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters

‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

www.theguardian.com

If Labour fixed this properly before the next election I'd vote for them.

 

[Overdriven]

We've got our local elections on the 7th of May and I have no idea who to vote for.

I live in the most middle class white area in Sussex and I know everyone will vote Blue.

Urgh.

 

[Gwadien]

View: https://youtu.be/aXqZQuakX1U?si=IErQc4xyXVMEn3nq


Lol

 

[Tom]

What a profoundly dishonest, stupid idiot she is. I wonder what her family think of her.

 

[Embattle]

I don't really need to watch it, nor do I want to

 

[Raven]

As this seems to be the UK politics thread...Going day drinking with my wife, my sister and her old man, and others, going to be interesting "people watching" last time it was a shithole, I am sure (just shy of) a year of Reform will have improved it. They "eliminated" free parking in the town centre (free in satellite towns) so at least it should be quiet. Place was glad of the booking, they fit 8 with a day's notice, decent place, too.

Edit, the place will probably be dead, with the exception of "dem immigrunts" because they have fuck all else to do. By design, obviously.

Used to have a fantastic, thriving market, sold all sorts, that was until the fucking Tories wasted millions moving it out the way, then spending years faffing about building a new market, just so the few businesses and livelihoods that still exist can return to customers that are not longer there.

 

[Raven]

Still a shithole, market decimated, felt like a tourist attraction, without the tourists. Lunch was fantastic, ended up in spoons...

Zapato 8/10
The Shipmans 9/10
Spoons (drinking spoons, not eating) 8/10
Northampton 2/10